FoxBoom!

MobileMe webmail is broken again. I still haven’t had the 30 day credit applied to my account. The support team are impossible to get hold of.

Fuck you, Apple. Fuck you for getting us all excited and not giving a damn. Fuck you for charging $100 a year for a service Microsoft, Yahoo and Google are all giving away for free, and goddamn you for not getting it even close to right.

Ever since MobileMe was announced, I’ve been evangelising it to everyone. You’ve made me look like a real world-class idiot. I am FUCKING sour. I am TIRED of the jokes. For the first time in my life, I’m embarassed to be associated with you.

I’m moving back to Google Apps, and we’ll never talk about this again.

I signed up for reQall yesterday, and I noticed it has a Jabber interface for adding notes and events and getting reminders, so I set it up.

(Incidentally, the website doesn’t actually mention the reQall Jabber ID, so I wrote to their technical support. They got back really quickly, and it’s “reqall@im.reqall.com”.)

The problem was, reQall didn’t authorise my Jabber subscription. Then I realised, things had been rather quiet on Jabber since I moved to Google Apps. So I did a bit of research, and found this artlcle on enabling users to chat outside the Google Talk network. But since I can’t modify my domains SRV records with 123-Reg, I seem a little stuck.

And so, I’ve gone back to “foxboom@googlemail.com” for Jabber. reQall’s working great, and I’m seeing more people online than I have for ages.

I was just looking for a way to synchronise my Mac OS Address Book and Google contacts, and I found Soocial. It sounds like the kind of thing I want, so here’s waiting on that beta code…

Now all I need is to be allowed to merge my normal Google account with my Google Apps account. My contacts are held in the “Google Apps” side, and everything else (i.e. my YouTube account, my maps and Reader) are in the normal Google account. This sucks.

With thanks to Google Apps For My Domain, my Jabber ID is now the same as my e-mail address, “jon@foxboom.com”.

Happy New Year, mailbox-heads!